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Had a little project for setting up a host for development / hosting legacy stuff and found that the information about this is pretty scattered / shitty. So, here goes. Done on a recent Ubuntu but should be pretty straight-forward on any distro:

2. Configure && compile your PHP. For the 5.2 branch you need to throw in a patch (wget that to your php-5.2.17-dir and say patch -p0 < filename.patch) to compile against more modern libxml2. The options for enabling fastcgi support have changed with pretty much every release, but this does the trick: ./configure –enable-fastcgi –with-fastcgi –enable-cgi && make

3. Create wrappers for all your php versions. We’re being lazy here and run them directly from /usr/src/ where we compiled it. No messy make installs. Pretty much like this:

It glows in the dark. Eerie. It’s also my third Kindle and my third device ever which triggered the reversal buyer’s remorse: Why oh why didn’t I buy this earlier? Also, that pretty much sums it up. Even my doubts about not having hardware buttons, but I have to admit that having to touch the screen to advance does drop the accidental next pages pretty much to zero.

For me, Kindle is pretty much the equivalent of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy. It is something I always carry with me – I’d never really do that on a paperback. It has all (or close enough) the knowledge in the world in a very different sense than when the same phrase is used about Wikipedia.

Interesting. There was a huge explosion in exactly the same spot where there was a bomb threat a week ago. Nobody I know was injured, one guy apparently got the kitchen window to his breakfast, though.

Cold and wet. Enjoyed the 17 course grand ABaC menu, unimaginable amount of seafood tapas, wine and cervezas all over the place. Got ripped off but avoided being mugged. Broke my Kindle and got blisters. Ordered a new paperwhite. Not exactly impressed, but that’s probably because of the weather so I guess I’ll have to try it again some more summery time.

I’ve just had the great pleasure of getting to know a completely new cut of beef to me: The brisket. This extremely tough muscle supports about 60% of the body weight of the cow and is extremely tasty when slow cooked in a smoke grill for hours, hours and hours. Supplement with pulled pork, coleslaw, jalapeño cornbread, pico de Gallo and borracho pinto beans and you got yourself a feast!